Horse-evener.



No. 843,246. PATENTED FEB. 5, 1907.-

C. WENDLAND.

HORSE EVBNER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 25. 1906.

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being shown as when five animals are to CARL WENDLAND, OF KRUM, TEXAS.

HORSE-EVENEF-L Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 5, 1907.

p Application filed July 25, 1906. Serial No. 327.678.

T (LZZ whom, it Trmy concern:

Be it known that I, CARL \VENDLAND, a citizen of the United States,residing at Krum, in the county of Denton and State of Texas, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Horse-Evenors; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in eveners andmyobject is to provide a device of this class which can be utilized foremploying either four or five draft-animals.

ther objects and advantages will be hereinafter referred to and moreparticularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawing I have shown a plan view of the evener as applied to useupon the beam or tongue of an implement, the evener be used.

Referring to the drawing, in which similar reference-numerals designatecorresponding parts through, 1 indicates a tongue or beam of animplement to the outer end of which is secured a spreader-bar 2, saidbar having a clevis 3 near one end thereof, said clevis being secured toa similar clevis 4 on the end of the tongue 1 by means of a chain 5.Secured to the end of the spreader-bar 2 farthest from the clevis 3 is aswingletree 6, while to the epposite end of the bar 2 is secured adoubletree 7, to each end of which is pivotally secured levers S and 9,respectively, the pivot-points and 11, respectively of the levers beingnear their inner ends, said ends being yieldingly secured together bymeans of a chain 12, extending around a sheave 13, while the outer endsof said levers are provided with swingletrees 1 1 and 15, respectively.The sheave 13 is pivotally mounted in a clevis 16, to which is secured achain 17, said chain being of sullicient length to extend in front ofthe draft-animals secured to the swingletrees 14 and 15 and has securedto its outer end a doubletree 18, the chain 17 being secured to thedoubletree 18 at its central portion and extending in line with theconnection between the doubletree 7 and the end of the spreadenbar 2,the doubletree 7 being sel i l l l l i l cured to the bar 2 by means ofclevises 19 and 20, respectively, and a chain 2]. connecting saidclevises, the clevis 19 being pivotally secured to the central portionof the double tree 7, while the clevis 20 is pivotally secured to theshort end of the spreader-bar 2. The doubletree 18 has secured to eachend thereof a swingletree 22.

It will now readily be seen that by this construction live draft-animalscan be used and by disposing a pair of draft-animals in front of theother pair of animals and both pairs of animals substantially in linewith the tongue of the implement and a single horse to one side of theimplement-tongue that the draftanimals will be assembledcompactlytogether. It will also be seen that when it is desired toemploy but four of the draft-animals that the spreader-bar 2 can beremoved from the tongue and the clevis 20 secured to the tongue, therebydispensing with the single animal and providing a four-horse evener, thedraft-animal being then directly disposed in line with the tongue.

What I claim is A device of the class described comprising aspreader-bar, a swingletree secured to one end of said bar, meansadjacent one end of said bar to secure said bar to a tongue, adenbletree secured to the opposite end of said spreader-bar from thatoccupied by the swingletree, levers pivotally secured to each end ofsaid doubletree, the pivot-points of said levers being adjacent one endthereof, a swingletree secured to the outer end of each of said levers,a chain disposed between the meeting ends of said levers, a sheaveengaging said chain, an elongated chain secured to said sheave, adoubletree at the outer end of said chain and a swingletree secured toeach end of said doubletree, said chain being of sullicient length todispose the draft-animals at the outer end thereof in front of thedraftanimals secured to the swingletrees on the levers.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

CARL \VENDLAND.

Vitnesses WV. G. KiMBnoUGIi, PINns HARVEY.

